I really do not remember whether I started fly fishing from a canoe or wading first. Grew up with canoes and fished with "the other method" out of the canoe some time before taking up the fly rod. Now having done so for years I can tell you I always fish from the canoe sitting down ... and can do so with ease and accuracy. Cannot cast as far as standing, but certainly adequate. Another thing I will do with the canoe is fishing downstream to some good fishing holes and beach the canoe and then get out the wading attire. I should add here that not only have I been doing the canoe fishing for many years but also that I learned at the cost of taking an unexpected bath or two, plus losing some fishing gear, that standing up in a canoe is not too good an idea ~ at least for me and the type canoes I use for fly fishing.




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